Sam Crane (actor)

Sam Crane (born 1979) is an English actor. He attended Oxford University and LAMDA, where he won the Nicholas Hytner Award for the best actor of his year.[1] He played Farinelli in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King opposite Mark Rylance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse[2] and reprised his role when the production transferred first to the Duke of York's Theatre[3] and then to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.[4] He is also known for playing Winston Smith in Headlong's production of 1984 in the West End,[5] Fred Walters in the BBC's six-part drama series Desperate Romantics[6] and Frederick Abberline in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate.[7] In 2017 he played Patrick Plunket in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown.[8]

Background

Crane is the son Richard Crane, a playwright, and theatre director Faynia Williams. He studied at Oxford University, and LAMDA. He is married to filmmaker Pinny Grylls and they have a young son and daughter.[9]

Selected credits

References
  1. "Actor stakes his claim on the national stage". The Oxford Times. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. Shakespeare's Globe press release
  5. Digital Spy review of 1984
  6. Interview in "Yorkshire Evening Post"
  7. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4332798/
  9. Interview in the Evening Times, 21 July 2009
  10. "Midsomer Murders". IMDB. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
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